Good one, TW. Ran about 8 miles yesterday on the OU XC course before the football game. Had to take an ibu during the game but otherwise had fun. This morning I'm tired even after a good night's sleep but no headache so no ibu yet. I feel cranky.

Holly, great race. You would kick my butt! I like the 15k distance. Lyndenrunner, good comeback!

"We are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good." Vince Lombardi

ps - Harrisburg trivia: which state capital used to be Harrisburg too?

Regarding my 200th marathon in 8:16:36.6 at age 73 compared to Ed Whitlock’s 2:54:48 at age 73 and my first one at 3:52:15 at age 34, "That was a good day. It was never a struggle, . . . . almost like walking"

Good going, TW! Next thing you know you'll be booking a trip to the Alps to ride along with the Tour.

Ran my 10K this morning in summer racing gear, although the stiff breeze was a bit cool. This was the annual "Big Bird 10K" in Roseville, which is in a part of the metro area that's pretty unfamiliar to me (it's a BIG metro area!). As advertised, the course was flat and fast, except for where we had to take a pedestrian walkway over wide, busy I-696. It was narrow and crowded, and with one of those corkscrew ramps leading up to it that gave my knee a couple of twinges.

The weirdest part was when I was a bit over halfway across, my legs started feeling rubbery and I felt like my sense of balance was off. I started to get a bit alarmed when I realized that it was the bridge that was flexing with all the people running on it. Once on the other side, all was back to normal. But at least that was the only "hill" on the course (had to cross it again later on).

Anyway, my time was about 54:30, which would be an over-60 PR at least, and not that far off my all-time PR in 2007, a year when I PR'd at 4 different distances. I couldn't stay around to get the placings so will have to look it up later.

I guess I got home in time for the end of summer. 3 miles on the trails Erika was recently visiting.

While waiting at the airport last night I twice typed a reply to Erika RE: the paths she was running in Seattle, Twice my cell phone ate the reply

Here goes again.

Erika, If instead of turning left at the chain link fence. If You had run straight ahead At the top of the hill You would have been in Magnolia on mostly quiet residential streets with sidewalks. If you stay on the main road, you will end up in discovery park in a couple miles. If you follow the signs to the Ballard locks, You would find yourself in a park like setting with the ship locks in the middle of it. after exiting the locks on the Ballard side, You can turn left on the pike/pedestrian trail leading to golden gardens park a couple miles away. (from the start of Myrtal Edwards park to golden gardens and back is about 15 miles). Or at the locks you can turn right and run the Ballard sidewalk to the start of the Burke-Gilman trail.

Ah, thanks, Dave. I'll have to remember that for next time. I was about ready to turn around anyway when I came to the Magnolia turnoff, so that one will have to wait for another day. Good to know, though.

Gordon, I meant to comment earlier on your progress since you've returned to running: simply awesome! Keep at it, fren.

Nice race, Doug! Nothing like a little dip and sway to add some interest to the race, no?

^5 to tomwhite on finding his new XT plan! Nice bike ride, and you can just add a little each day. I think the bike will be easier to increase than running, and good to hear things went well.

Waiting for OM news....

Got home last night and there's snow everywhere! Well, there was snow when I left too, of course, but more now! It had been really cold last week, glad I missed it, but warmed up a little now. Currently around 8° though, and with all the new snow I'll probably do some miles on the treadmill today. No need to rush into this winter running stuff, right Cindy??

Just a quick note here while I am waiting for PosieSon2 to come up so we can go to dinner and then to see SKyfall. He already watched it once, but invited me to go and see it again for a mom-son outing (smiling big here, of course).

Today I dared to take a little adventure and I drove to the trail-head of a nice hiking place and ran my first solo trail/mountain run. I feel so grown up now . 20 miles in 3:34. I was surprised how fast I ran in the altitude and terrain.

Now my run was mostly on DNR road, but it had a few trail components to it. Here is a picture of my favorite spot.

"Champions are everywhere; all you need is to train them properly..." ~Arthur Lydiard

As I was getting ready for Church, this morning, I got called into work. Last night's storm caused three large trees to fall into a house causing pretty severe damage. I worked from 10:30 am to 6:00 pm, carrying tree limbs, cleaning out a room that roof debris fell into, nailing tarps on the roof to keep anymore water out. The whole time I was grumbling under my breath for having to work on my day off, freezing my butt off, missing my bowling league, and just an overall hatred of my job. As I sit in my nice warm house...with all the utilities working...with a complete roof overhead...I'm feeling pretty crappy for all the grumbling I was doing.

Nice run, Mariposai! Enjoy the movie; DH and I are going to try to get to that this week.

Yeah, MikeE, sometimes all you need is a little perspective, right?

Still getting my treadmill legs back... I was sort of sproinkless today. 7 miles on the treadmill with 4 half mile repeats at the blistering pace of 8:13 with a 1.5 mile warm up at 8:49, recoveries of .25 mile @ 8:49, then a mile at 8:34, and 1.5 at 8:49 all while listening to last week's "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me." Thank goodness for Paula Poundstone and Peter Sagal....

{{{Mike}}} Sorry you had a tough day, and had to work on your day off. Nice that you got some perspective on your day, but it still sounds tough. Hang in there, friend.

OM ran a 4:25, a nice PR.

tw, you always make me smile. You have such a way with ellipses....................

Mari, looks like a beautiful place to run! How can it be that you've never done a solo trail run before???

It was cold and windy here all day. I finally bundled up and ventured out with my fuzzy running buddies at about 1 pm - I decided it was as warm as it was likely to get, at 12F. We ran 5 trail miles in Golden Gate Canyon State Park, on snowy trails. It was fun.

I hammered down the trail, passing rocks and trees like they were standing still.